Liam Fox
Government ramps up Trident work despite coalition pledge
As the government cracks under pressure on forest sales and housing benefit for the long-term unemployed, further revelations on Trident replacement spending are adding to their headaches.
Fox under pressure on £4.3bn of mystery “non frontline savings”
Jim Murphy has urged the Government to come clean on how it would achieve "at least £4.3 billion of non frontline savings". The MOD is unable to account for its numbers.
Cost of Trident delay inevitable result of the compromise of coalition
Defence secretary Liam Fox’s admission that the Trident delay announced in last month’s Strategic Defence & Security Review (SDSR) will cost up to £1.4 billion attracted fresh criticism of the government’s handling of the issue. John Woodcock, the Labour MP for Barrow - where the submarines are built - claimed the coalition was “playing politics with Britain's national security” by delaying the decision on Trident renewal for five years so as to avoid a Liberal Democrat revolt on the issue.
Coalition sacks brave troops rather than risk anger of defence contractors
The Government's axe looks like it will fall on the the frontline. It has been announced that there will be a reduction in the number of service men and women in order to save money, whilst continuing with massive defence procurement spending - drawing criticism from the Pentagon and the tabloid press alike.
Fox’s Sri Lankan jolly under scrutiny
Liam Fox's paid-for trips to Sri Lanka, revealed by LFF last month, are reported today in a BBC report into MPs' overseas trips paid for by foreign governments.
Cameron knew Ashcroft tax status “in last month”
Liam Fox this afternoon admitted that David Cameron knew Lord Ashcroft was a non-dom "within the last month". He refused to say when William Hague first knew.